Green Light Given Before Or After Rescue?

First off, Congratulations and Welcome Home to Captain Phillips. I know your friends and family are so very happy to know your safe.

Captain Phillips is back on the USS Bainbridge. The Navy Commander and US Navy SEALs decisively engaged the pirates killing three and capturing one. Not surprisingly Obama and his administration are lining up to take credit and claim they gave the green light for action over and over again during the last 72 hours. As a matter of fact he is claiming he gave it twice. I guess it's twice because they want to emphasize that point. Why am I so skeptical?

Is it his comments about how we can't do anything by ourselves and have to only act with allies?

Is it his comments today that we must work only with allies to stem pirates?

Is it his indecisiveness with everything and playing to whatever crowd is present?

Is it his comments during the world apology tour?

Maybe it's that fact that the FBI was flown in to negotiate. Whats the matter you don't trust the military to handle it?

It's probably all of them. If this went badly he would have been claiming we needed to talk longer. Since it went well, they are immediately trying to take credit. Either way I'm not buying it.

By the way, he also said that he didn't bow.

Betsy

Captain Frees Self, Navy Completes Rescue

Captain Richard Phillips freed himself again, dove into the water escaping the pirates holding him, and gave the Navy the chance to destroy the Pirates. More to follow on this tonight.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514719,00.html

Betsy

Pirates....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514635,00.html

I'm just wondering when the current administration is going to do something? Here we are, the most powerful nation in the world and our President can not figure out what to do about a rag tag element ambushing our shipping, and kidnapping our citizens.

Now I know discretion is called for, since they have a hostage. But this is exactly what Navy SEALS and Marines train for. Instead we have the FBI being flown in to negotiate. I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists? Make no mistake, there is no difference between these "pirates" and terrorists. These are the same type of men who fought our brave Delta Operators, Rangers, and 10th Mountain Soldiers in Mogadishu.

In conclusion, I don't believe there is any surprise in the fact that these pirates never attacked US shipping during President Bush's term. They know what he would have done, and feared it. They do not fear Obama nor do they respect him. I think this is a very powerful indicator of what the world really thinks of him.

Betsy